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Women RISE initiative launches on International Women’s Day: Canada invests in research to ensure an equitable COVID-19 recovery
Around the world, women and girls have disproportionately suffered the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19. Before the pandemic, women were doing three times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men. Data from UN Women shows that women make up 70% of the health workforce worldwide and are therefore at the forefront of the COVID-19 response; in 11 countries where sex-disaggregated data is available, women account for 71% of confirmed cases among healthcare workers. On many fronts, the limited gains made on gender equity over recent decades are at risk of being rolled back.
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